Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 19

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August 19: Ghost Festival in the Chinese calendar (2005)

1848 - California Gold Rush: The New York Herald reported news to the East Coast of the United States that a gold rush was on in California.
1942 - World War II: Allied forces raided Dieppe, France in the Dieppe Raid.
1953 - Operation Ajax: The government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran was overthrown.
1960 - Russian space dogs Belka ("Squirrel") and Strelka ("Little Arrow") began to orbit the Earth aboard the Korabl-Sputnik-2 spacecraft.
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev was announced as "ill and had been relieved of his state post as President" in a failed Soviet coup attempt.